Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I have always loved this movie. Emily Blunt breathes life into what could have been something really goofy. I am bothered by one glaring discrepancy, though. The gas station is on the opposite side of the highway from where they turn off to their shortcut. Yet, at the end of the movie, Emily comes out of the woods on the highway side of the gas station. I know she didn't cross the highway to get there.

Greetings from Lithuania."Wind Chill" (2007) was pretty chilly and spooky horror / ghost story. It has a few actors, and Emily Blunt does a descent job as one of the few who gets into "ghost trouble". The setting was pretty simple but effective, as it's premise. I did liked the pacing of this movie very much - at running time 1 h 22 min it never drags and i was involved during this whole pretty short movie.Overall, "Wind Chill" is a pretty simple movie, yet effectively done. It has all the ingredients for a spooky ghost story - a chilling setting, few characters, good for this material writing and solid directing. While it's not the best horror movie around, it manages to make it's job for one evening / night when you are alone with the TV. Pretty solid stuff.

A college student (Emily Blunt) finds a ride home to Delaware for the Christmas holidays from the bulletin board. He (Ashton Holmes) is getting kicked out of his apartment. They don't get along. He goes on a snow covered side road despite her objections. They get run off the road by oncoming traffic. There is no phone signal. He turns out to be a stalking romantic who planned to use the trip to start a relationship. The weather turns even colder as night falls. Then strange apparitions appear as well as a threatening mysterious cop (Martin Donovan) from 1953.There is a basic problem with this setup. Holmes' plan to get her alone is more than creepy. It's basically kidnapping and if anything, that made her nicer to him. Their relationship is all wonky. She's an annoying girl to him, then he turns into Norman Bates, and the murdering ghosts turn them into a couple. A lot more thought needs to go into figuring out how to write their story. It would be so much better if they were acquaintances before the drive and he held a secret crush. The acting is pretty good. One can't really go wrong with Emily Blunt. However this isn't particularly scary. It's a bit moody and that's mostly due to the snowy windy night. The movie is spooky but not scary.

Fantastic direction, threatening setting, amazing acting, But… but no, the plot was not at all satisfactorily explained! The intriguing - till before the ending -script left me wondering and wondering about what exactly I had watched! And since the ending in this genre of movies plays a very important role to the viewer's judgment, I have to admit that, to my great disappointment, lots of details were left unexplained in it! Was it so on purpose or it was due to the writer's inability to give an explainable ending to his story? I can't really tell! However, the fact that I have tried over and over to find the keys to the deeper understanding of the missing clues of this film, does mean a lot to me!!! It means that I was so totally taken by the horrifying , yet extremely tender story of its two characters (the "girl" and the "boy"), that, finding its deeper truth was, still is, something I just couldn't get away that easy without. Supposing that it was all in their shocked minds –after the accident- (like "Jacob's ladder, or "stay" or " wrong turn") seems comforting somehow, but not enough as it doesn't exactly explain everything, and certainly not the final scene of the boy's ghost leading the girl to salvation… Anyway, I was not bored for a single moment watching "wind chill". Besides that, the fact that all three times I have watched this movie, its ending has always left me devastated, with tears rolling down my face, means a lot to me! To make a long story short, it means that this film really "had a soul" which helped me become a part of its universe. And I think it will mean a lot to you too, if you let yourself free to feel its profound tenderness and look at it as a dark story of love, rather than a horror movie!